Hi everyone; after discussions about pierce damage, I want to give that kind of damage another shot. I had no infiltrator so wanted to level one and see how belgo Inf compared to BM. I can say it’s way tankier; HoG is smoother to cast than War Cry and have less CD; a bit piano but I cut RoS and kinda managed with others. Since this one published by a lot of good builders; this will be a short thread.
Images from the game with permanent and PB&WoR buffs.
There is only one MI in the build, Derma Slicer; Heart Piercing prefix on that is not that crucial damage wise but it adds some good stats.
Cord of Deception is used for resistances and DA bonus, without it you may compensate the resistances but DA suffers too much.
Tranquil Mind pants is used to cap slow resist and get spirit bonus without investing.
I favoured Bladedancer’s Handguards over Shadow’s Grasp because of AQC points and phys resist; cunning bonus is almost same, AS is same. Only thing it lacks flat pierce damage and proc doesn’t bother me.
Mark of Kalastor is for good stats mainly. The rest is classic dw pierce build.
SR 90 Boss Room
After 85, death is inevitable. No matter the mutators; you can get one-shotted by some bosses and chunks are more trickier since build lacks AoE.
- Ravager of Flesh
Full facetank with health and OA consumables, and used 1x aether cluster.
- Avatar of Mogdrogen
Used health regen, lightning resist and OA consumables, and 1x aether cluster.
Thanks for reading, any comment&feedback is welcome
i never get tired of different pierce/belgo BM/Infil spins
PS. GT not working/not added
edit, okay, now i can properly comment @fordprefect
2 things i love here, first, using Bladetwister instead of blackwatch etc and using Bladedancer’s instead of shadow grasp
now gandar is getting “proper” utility i guess that means it’s no longer a meme skill?
Thanks, I like bladedancer gloves. And somehow this one was lacking pierce resistance so Bladetwister fitted
And Horn is meme if you use it as damage source I guess but I used it defensively for damage reduction and confuse, also it contributes as AoE slightly. Ring of Steel would be better for AoE but I couldn’t use it with Horn and didn’t want to give up damage reduction of Horn either. Probably any other builder use Attuned Lodestone on medal for DR and spend those extra points into RoS.
Yes but that synergy will going to change in next hotfix. Also Seal proc it as good as BS when you stack a few under a monster and definitely shotgun it because it procs beneath it, not in front or behind. Though in crowd BS is better proccer than seal.
And Shifting Sands on BS also provides passive leech(not much though) due to %30 WD.
Blade Spirits hits and proc shifting sands no matter what, but you need to cast WoP and it’s not a great proccer on single target; when you stunned etc and can’t cast WoP, Blade Spirits keep hitting and proccing Shifting Sands. It’s not like Bat binded to BS but atleast something. Binding options can be change depending on player preference so I’m just explaining my situation; I didn’t mean that WoP won’t heal you if it procs a devotion with WD.
keep in mind items have variable rolls
a few items also changed some resist stats in 9.2
which can potentially help explain if you don’t have capped pierce res now
and using Bladedancer’s instead of shadow grasp 
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any advice on skill rotation ?